Budget Muddle by Joe_King

Format: Commander

Commander: Muddle, the Ever-Changing

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Izzet tempo deck is built around Muddle, the Ever-Changing's unique ability to become a copy of a nonlegendary creature you control with myriad whenever you cast an instant or sorcery. The primary game plan is to deploy a value creature (e.g., Mercurial Spelldancer, Port Razer, Professional Face-Breaker), then trigger Muddle's transformation with a cheap cantrip or unblockable spell, creating multiple attacking copies that hit each opponent. The myriad tokens generate combat-damage triggers for card draw, treasure, extra combats, and spell copying, accumulating overwhelming advantage. The deck wins through incremental combat damage, often chaining extra combats via Port Razer or using Moria Marauder's double strike to close out games. It is a highly synergistic, spell-slinging combat deck that rewards careful sequencing and protection of its key creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Artful Dodge
  • 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
  • 1 Beyeen Veil // Beyeen Coast
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 Cloak of Feathers
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Defy Gravity
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Expedite
  • 1 Fading Hope
  • 1 Fated Infatuation
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Grabby Giant // That's Mine
  • 1 Impolite Entrance
  • 1 Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Leap
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Mirage Mockery
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle, the Ever-Changing
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Parapet Thrasher
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Possibility Technician
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Pyrogoyf
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Rose Room Treasurer
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls
  • 1 Sakashima's Will
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Seafloor Oracle
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Shadow Rift
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Stern Dismissal
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Subterfuge
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Trial of Agony
  • 1 Tzaangor Shaman
  • 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy
  • 1 Watcher for Tomorrow
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach